JustinFoo
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
OK... I found some time to duck out during lunch to get a heater and thermometer. Set it to 22 degrees celcius. Not much else I can do but wait I guess...
JustinFoo said:OK... I found some time to duck out during lunch to get a heater and thermometer. Set it to 22 degrees celcius. Not much else I can do but wait I guess...
What is ur temp now? Don't raise it more than 1 degree every 12 hours
JustinFoo said:Well, it's in the day time now and the temp in the water was 21 degrees. So it's just one degree My white clouds seem to be loving the new addition though...
Great! Good luck with everything.
JustinFoo said:Thanks! You guys have been great help with the many advice. I'll update this if I see any changes to the Oranda.
Hubert90 said:just another idea. I feed my goldfish pellets 3 times a week, bloodworms once a week and frozen food for goldfish I brought from my Lfs once a week with one day of fasting. It works great! Other than pellets my oranda doesn't gasp for air!
Mr. Limpet said:Maybe pellets don't set well with it. Do you feed peas (shelled) to them? Once a week is what I do and they go crazy for them, zucchini is another one you might want to try.
Hubert90 said:O ya forgot to mention. I do feed peas once a week. Ya that's why Im thinking of changing my pellets. Always being a hikari person, gonna give nls a go! Zucchinis? Do u blanch it?
Mr. Limpet said:Nope, don't blanch the peas either. I use plant weights to keep the zuc's down.
O ok. Any reason y u don't blanch ur peas? Oo so u leave ur zucchinis whole? O wow how do goldfish eat them.
I give my goldies zucchini as well. I do it a bit different than Mr Limpet. (Do you peel yours? I do because I didn't think they would eat the skin). Anyway, I peel them, slice them, put them in the microwave for a bit, just until soft. Then I put them in a zip lock freezer bag and keep them in the freezer until I want to feed it to them. Then back out of the freezer and I defrost them in some tank water with a little garlic added, use a veggie suction clip to attach it to the glass and its generally gone by the next morning.
I have a floating oranda too! It seems to be going around. There is no rhyme or reason that I can tell why mine does that. I've stopped feeding flakes and generally feed either Hikari Lionhead or there is a food that is supposed to prevent bloat that I buy from Goldfish Connection. ProGold I think it is called. Obviously its not preventing bloat in my fish but sometimes I wonder if it would be even worse if I didn't feed it to him. Who knows? Mine floats belly up, usually in the mornings and sometimes it will last for half a day. By evening though, he's generally fine. This happens once or twice a week and I can't figure out what causes it! Frustrating.
seems to me Jsoong mentioned a homemade food somewhere (here?) and that might be an option to try out.
This is the recipe page (click on the recipe name for detailed instructions):
Gel Food Recipes
Some fancy golds can't stomach anything except whole food - so this is what the real goldies fanatics feed them. Just make a batch, freeze into little cubes & thaw & feed. <A lot of the fancy goldies keeper at the specialist boards will not feed any commercial food ... they think that the homemade whole food has better nutrition, etc.>
jsoong said:You can have him/her alternate between peas & pellets each day. <Alternating pellets & whole food each day is a good regime for sensitive fish (gut wise) ... you might want to try that when you come back.>
I am using new life spectrum Goldfish pellets.+1 I Agree the mentioned feeding schedule does wonder for my oranda but I'm still to figure out what kinda pellets my oranda can take without him gasping for air as a result! Jsoong what kinda pellets do u feed ur oranda(assuming u have one from ur profile pic) ?